We're online!

Our picture and birth parent letter has been posted on the adoption agency's web site! We're so excited. It just seems a little more real knowing it's up there, despite the fact that our social worker said few birth mothers, if any, pick a family from the site.

I was going to post the link, but I am paranoid. In case, by some small chance, someone monitors their website traffic, I don't want them to see a sudden spike in visitors coming from my blog. Not that I have anything to hide, but I'd like to feel free to post about my thoughts, worries and fears about adoption without thinking our social worker might be reading it. Yes, I am paranoid, because there would have to be quite the sequence of events to have it get to that point, and hopefully our social worker would think my thoughts are fairly normal anyways. I hope.

So if you want to see it, just google the name of our agency: Chil.dren's Ho.me Soc.iety of Vir.gin.ia, then click on 'adoption,' then 'birth parents' and then 'waiting families.'

Oh, and then you have to scroll WAY down.

Hopefully over the next several months the number of families ahead of us will shrink and we'll move up the list. You better believe I'll be checking it constantly! My friend, who is waiting with the same agency (and is one half of one of the couples ahead of us on list of pictures. I won't say which one, but you can probably figure it out), said she was told no new birth mothers came in last month. From now on I am going to step up my prayers for all the expectant mothers in my state (the agency has three offices in different parts of VA) who are trying to figure out what to do with their babies. Please, God, lead them to our adoption agency, rather than the abortion clinic!